Favorite or New Plant

Lettuce
For an attractive array of lettuce flavors, textures, and colors, choose as many different varieties as you can find: dark green, light green, red, bronze, butterhead, looseleaf, romaine, and crisphead. I don't bother with iceberg-type crispheads because I prefer the flavors of others. My favorites are butterhead and Bibb, which have crunchy midribs and delicately sweet leaves. Repeat sowing every three weeks for continuous harvests of young, sweet, succulent leaves and heads until at least June.

When sowing in late April and early May, choose varieties that are heat-resistant, bolt-resistant, and less likely to turn bitter when they mature, and you may be able to continue your harvests through the summer.